Stirling Dale Silliphant (January 16, 1918 – April 26, 1996) was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his screenplay for In the Heat of the Night, for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and for creating the television series Naked City, Perry Mason, and Route 66. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stirling Silliphant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Shaft
(Executive Producer)
The Poseidon Adventure
(Screenplay)
Over the Top
(Screenplay)
Marlowe
(Screenplay)
In the Heat of the Night
(Screenplay)
The Enforcer
(Screenplay)
The Towering Inferno
(Screenplay)
Telefon
(Screenplay)
The Killer Elite
(Screenplay)
The Lineup
(Writer)
Circle of Iron
(Screenplay)
Circle of Iron
(Story)
Village of the Damned
(Screenplay)
Fly Away Home
(Writer)
Nightfall
(Writer)
Charly
(Screenplay)
The Grass Harp
(Screenplay)
5 Against the House
(Screenplay)
The Swarm
(Screenplay)
When Time Ran Out...
(Screenplay)
The Slender Thread
(Writer)
The Three Kings
(Writer)
A Walk in the Spring Rain
(Screenplay)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones
(Screenplay)
A Stranger in the Mirror
(Teleplay)
Damn Citizen
(Writer)
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
(Writer)
The New Healers
(Creator)
The New Healers
(Writer)
The New Healers
(Producer)
Salween
(Writer)
Longstreet
(Writer)
Death Scream
(Writer)
The New Centurions
(Screenplay)
Day of Reckoning
(Writer)
Catch the Heat
(Writer)
Catch the Heat
(Executive Producer)
Movin' On
(Original Series Creator)
The General And Me
(Writer)
Huk!
(Novel)
Huk!
(Screenplay)
Fly Away Home
(Producer)
Murphy's War
(Screenplay)
Maracaibo
(Screenplay)
A Walk in the Spring Rain
(Producer)
Shaft in Africa
(Writer)
The Silent Kill
(Writer)
5 Against the House
(Producer)
A Time For Love
(Director)
A Time For Love
(Writer)
A Time For Love
(Producer)
The Grass Harp
(Co-Producer)
Golden Gate
(Writer)
Wings of Fire
(Writer)
Travis McGee
(Teleplay)
The Joe Louis Story
(Producer)
Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
(Writer)
Shaft in Africa
(Producer)
Mr. Lucky
(Writer)
Naked City
(Writer)
Longstreet
(Writer)
Longstreet
(Producer)
Route 66
(Writer)
Alcoa Theatre
(Writer)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
(Writer)
M Squad
(Writer)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(Writer)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
(Writer)
Suspicion
(Writer)
Brotherhood of the Rose
(Producer)
Salem's Lot
(Executive Producer)
Pearl
(Writer)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(Teleplay)
Space
(Teleplay)
Perry Mason
(Writer)
Mussolini: The Untold Story
(Writer)
Route 66
(Creator)
Naked City
(Creator)
Longstreet
(Creator)
The Man from Blackhawk
(Creator)